Adult Male Elephants have the longest and largest tusks of all elephant species. The tusks grow around 18 cm every year. African Elephants have a much larger tusk than their Asian counterparts. They can grow to upto 3 meters in length. They can weigh around 90 kilograms or so. The asian elephant tusts are much smaller and weigh around 40 kilos. The Tusk is nothing but a teeth that has grown out of the skull. Just like a human teeth, it is made of calcium and other minerals. It is used as a display of size and strength and sometimes during fights or to bring down a tree while feeding. Females usually have a very small tusk or no tusk at all.
ivory
Ivory is the commonly used name for the substance of an elephant tusk.
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The Asian elephants tusk was bigger than the African elephants tusk
Elephants kill thing by using their tusk. Tusk are made of ivory which is very strong which makes it eaisier for them to kill things. They also use their tusk as weapons and shovels.
they have tusk because they need to defend them selfs hi savannah
No, an elephant's tusk is ivory, while a rhino's horn is made up of compressed hairs.
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they use it as their hand.
to protect themselves
the tusk
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